In 2017 Jacinda Ardern promised to ban mining on DOC land and now it seems that this is back on the table as it has been ‘rubber stamped’ by the cabinet. Banning things is the one thing the Labour Government can claim they deliver. Currently, 0.04% of DOC land
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Are you frustrated with the increasing use of te reo Maori in the mainstream news and weather? The TVNZ/RNZ merger was proposed because viewer numbers were down. One might expect that a revamp to regain viewers and advertisers would be in order. Maybe not. Early last year, the Labour
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Camellia Webb-Gannon Lecturer University of Wollongong “Phil Mehrtens is the nicest guy, he genuinely is – no one ever had anything bad to say about him”, says a colleague of the New Zealand pilot taken hostage this week by members of the West Papuan Liberation Army (TPN-PB) in the
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Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. This week’s bonfire of policy was also a bonfire of cash. The Hipkins-led Government finally ditched the RNZ-TVNZ media merger, but only
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Unlike Mike Munro, who has Chris Hipkins as the PM for the next four years with the election in the bag, Bruce Cotterill in his article asks whether he is a man of action or a man of words. Bruce describes Hipkins as a good communicator, sharp, witty and likeable.
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The Business section of the Weekend Herald, Saturday February 4, contained a lot of good reading for which the paper deserves credit. High praise coming from yours truly. There was an in depth article on the airport and the problems confronting it. Fran O’Sullivan was sensibly suggesting giving Mayor
The late Sir Apirana Ngata is a man I never knew personally but from his preserved words and the reverence in which he was held as a scholar in contrasting worlds: those of Maori lore and British law, as a politician of long (nearly forty years) standing, and as a
